| By: Committee for Children When Bullying Is Racially Motivated: Recognizing It for What It Is and Supporting Kids to Be Anti-Racist Upstanders All forms of bullying harm kids, but biased-based harassment—when the underlying cause or motivation is prejudice—causes specific, increased harm. University of Michigan’s Dr. Deborah Rivas-Drake provides recommendations for how adults can recognize racially motivated bullying and support kids to be upstanders.Read More
| By: Casey Escola For Educators Aspiring Toward Allyship: Making an Impact at School In the last blog of this series, Implementation Specialist Casey Escola provides insights on how white educators can collaborate with colleagues in their work toward allyship within schools and offers some grace for occasional missteps along the way.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Why Does SEL Matter in Promoting Educator Diversity? In this blog, our policy experts answer questions about the importance of teacher diversity and the role SEL has to play in promoting it.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Building Student Engagement Through SEL Social-emotional competencies are vital to kids’ short- and long-term success—not just during the pandemic, but after it, too. Educators can nurture these skills by providing children explicit opportunities for social-emotional learning (SEL).Read More
| By: Casey Escola For Educators Aspiring Toward Allyship: Starting in the Classroom In the third blog of this series, Implementation Specialist Casey Escola provides insights on how white educators can work toward being allies in the classroom and offers some grace for occasional missteps along the way.Read More
| By: Casey Escola For Educators Aspiring Toward Allyship: A Note on Where to Begin In the second blog of this series, Implementation Specialist Casey Escola provides insights on some first steps white educators can take on their paths toward allyship and offers some grace for occasional missteps along the way.Read More
| By: Casey Escola First Steps in an Educator’s Path Toward Allyship Implementation Specialist Casey Escola provides insights on the many paths toward allyship for white educators and offers some grace for occasional missteps along the way.Read More
| By: Committee for Children Getting Children Ready to Learn: Tips for Educators and Families We asked our experts Bridgid Normand, special advisor for learning and impact, and Jasmine Williams, senior research scientist, to provide some insight on the effects of the pandemic on children—and what you as an educator can do to help.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier The Role Policy Plays in Understanding Race-Based Bullying In support of National Bullying Prevention Month and this year’s Captain Compassion® campaign to prevent racially motivated bullying, our policy experts look at how we can improve the framework to address, understand, and prevent racially motivated bullying.Read More
| By: Jordan Posamentier Supporting Racial Equity with Culturally Responsive Pedagogy and SEL Throughout history, race equity has been an issue intertwined in our education system in a multitude of ways. In this blog, our policy experts answer questions relating to culturally responsive teaching and racial equity. Read More